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Ebro is a small incorporated town in the extreme southwestern corner of Washington County in the Florida Panhandle, at the junction of State Roads 20 and 79.

Ebro became an incorporated town in 1967.

The 2020 census counted 237 people in Ebro, and recent Census Bureau surveys estimate the town has about 100 households.

Ebro is best known for Ebro Greyhound Park, a pari-mutuel dog track founded in 1955 by Greek immigrant Tom Trulis after Bay County voters rejected the track and Washington County voters agreed to host it near the Bay County line.

The Hess family has owned and operated the Ebro track since 1967, and in its prime it employed about 225 workers during the summer racing season, making it one of the largest employers in the area.

In peak tourist season the track could draw more than 2,000 visitors a day to a town of only a few hundred people, helped by its location about a 15-minute drive from Panama City.

Florida voters banned greyhound racing statewide by passing Amendment 13 in 2018, and live racing at Ebro ended by the close of 2020, though the facility's poker room carried on.

Pine Log State Forest, covering more than 8,000 acres just south of Ebro, was bought by the state in 1936 and was Florida's first state forest.